The 10 most clickable Twitter headlines

There's no magic formula for social media success, nor hard and fast rules for
how to use Twitter well.

But there are guidelines—informed by scads of data and legitimized through case studies and success stories—for writing the "best" Twitter
headlines as measured by their clickability. Tests have shown you can increase your
conversion rate on a link by 73 percent when you write a compelling headline.

Getting users to click on links in tweets is one of the major goals of brands that use Twitter.

Here are the 10 most clickable Twitter headlines that will engage your followers, draw traffic to your blog or website and help differentiate your Twitter
account among the thousands of competitors vying for attention.

1.Top 10 lists

People love lists on Twitter just like they do those across the Internet. (Did you notice the headline of this article?)

A Twitter headline that concisely packages the content you're linking to by referring to it with a quantity—it doesn't have to be 10—tells the reader that
wherever she goes after she clicks your link won't take too long to read and will be digestible.

2. The promise of something

The best headlines—in traditional copy and tweets alike—make a promise. Hook
people with a promise and they will feel that they'll be more entertained, informed, smarter or better off in some way than before they clicked the link in
your tweet.

3.Poignant questions

Ask and you shall receive. Pose a resonant question and you're more likely to attract engagement. People also want to follow, for the most part, users who
do more than push out 140-character press releases around the clock. Tweeting relevant and pithy questions suggests you actually care about your followers'
input.

4.Calls to action

Similarly, tell your followers to click on a link. As long as your tweet is well-written (grammatically correct, concise and engaging), they'll do so.
Also, according to Dan Zarella, the most retweeted word is "you."

5.Directed messages

When you preface your link with a targeted audience, you perk up the ears (er, fingers) of the followers in that category. People are more likely to click
on a link if they feel it's relevant to them.

6.Intrigue

When you catch a reader's eye with stand-out phrasing or buzzy language, they are that much more likely to engage with your content. With this one, you're
going for the virtual double-take reaction.

7.Newsy nuggets

It's nearly impossible these days to pinpoint what outlet broke what news, on what platform and when. But tweeting something that's time sensitive gives
people a major incentive to click your tweet.